Button-fastener.



W. B. CARRUTHERS.

BUTTON FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.IO. I918.

1,297,321. Patented Mar. 18, 1919.

WALTER BROOKS CARRUTHERS, OF TORONTO, OI TTARIO, CANADA.

BUTTON -FASTENER.

Application filed August 10, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatrI, WALTER BROOKS GAR- RUTHnRs, of the city of Toronto,in the county of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Button-Fasteners, of which thefollowing is the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in button fasteners and the objectof the invention is to devise positive means for seeuring heavy buttonsto heavy cloth so that there will be no danger of their loosening andbeing lost and will remain securely attached to the garment as long assuch garment lasts and it consists essentially of the followingarrangement and construction of parts as hereinafter more particularlyexplained.

Figure 1, is a general perspective view of a button secured by my deviceto a portion of cloth and showing the main portion of my device insection.

Fig. 2, is a perspective detail of the securing means separated from thebutton.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the various figures.

1 indicates a portion of cloth. 2 indicates a button provided With aloop or eye 2". 3 indicates a disk provided in proximity to its edge atone side thereof with an eye 3 and with a wire 4 at a diametricallyopposite point 4:", the secured end of such wire being welded orotherwise suitably secured to the disk 3.

hen securing the button in place the disk 3 is placed against the innerface of the cloth, the button being placed against Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1919.

Serial No. 249,307.

the opposite face and the wire 4 threaded through the cloth, through theloop or eye 2* and again through the cloth and through the eye 3 the endof the wire projecting through the eye 3* being wound around the eye toattach it in place.

It will thus be seen that I have provided by this construction a bearingfor the button against the inner face of the cloth so that any pull onthe button will not tend to tear the cloth away and, therefore, providepositive securing means which cannot break away and which will last aslong as the garment. itself lasts.

It will be understood that the disk 3 may be of any ornamental designsuch as a patriotic button or it may be used as an identification diskwith the identification marks on the outer face thereof or it may beused for any advertising purpose desired.

VVha-t I claim as my invention is.

The combination with a button having a loop or eye adapted to bearagainst one face of a cloth portion, a plate adapted to bear against theopposite face of thecloth portion, a separate flexible wire attached atone end to the plate and adapted to be threaded through the cloth andbutton eye and again through the cloth, and an eye projecting from theinner face of the plate and through which the wire is adapted to passand be wound when it is drawn home with the plate a rld button closepressed to the cloth at each 51 e.

WALTER BROOKS CARRUTHERS.

Witnesses:

M. EGAN, N. CARTER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

